The Frosty BugleYour Chill Summary of This Week in WintreathFebruary 15, 2022Wintreath is On: Discord | Forums | NationStates
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A Word from the Monarch
In Search of Communities
Recently I had a revelation. I was thinking of what makes up a community, and I realized that a community forms when people who have something in common interact with each other over it. It’s not enough to merely have people in the same place who have something in common. If they never interact with each other over it, it’s not a community.
On one hand, we have all kinds of communities. We have a Werewolf community who plays Werewolf games together and has an interest in seeing that side of things developed. We have a roleplay community who roleplays with each other, which will soon be formalized in the re-establishment of the RP guild. We have a general discussion community of people who like to answer icebreakers and post on the forums with each other, and we have a Discord community of people who chat with each other.
But on the other hand, this aspect shows some of the areas where we’ve wanted to have a community, but have struggled. We have all kinds of people who are LGBTQ+, but there’s rarely any LGBTQ+ discussion or interaction on that basis. We have plenty of gamers, but they rarely if ever play games with each other. In both cases, we aspire to have a community around these things, but have come up short because we’ve yet to form interactions with each other around them.
One of the things I would like to do next season is explore those and other areas. Are there discussions or events that our LGBTQ+ members and allies can come together on? Are there ways to bring our gamers together? Are there any other groups we can bring together? I’ve even wondered if we could get a furry community going, seeing that we have more furries in Wintreath than you would think at first glance.
We already have an awesome community. When people talk about what they like about Wintreath, the community is almost always the first thing they bring up. By exploring the many different groups that are a part of Wintreath, I believe we can only make our community even more special and awesome.
We will see what the future holds for us in this and other areas. In the meantime, stay frosty.
The Welcome WagonAloha to our new and returning Citizens!
Please welcome Kiddian (
Kiddian States) to our ranks of Citizens! He’s been around Wintreath for awhile now, so I’m very happy to see him become a Citizen and take the next step to becoming involved in Wintreath (he also joined the Hearthkeepers!).
If you would like to become a Citizen of Wintreath, all you have to do is join our
off-site forum and then
fill out this form. Citizens gain full rights under our regional constitution, gain access to Citizen-only areas of the forums and Discord, and can participate in our government from our all-Citizen assembly to the Cabinet that runs the day-to-do operations of Wintreath.
Upcoming EventsAll times Eastern
Minecraft Night - February 20th, 7PM EasternYou never know what will happen on a Minecraft night. Will you chat with regionmates while building something cool, go on an expedition into dangerous caverns, or tour someone’s really awesome building or town? Join us and see what the night holds for you! The Discord In-Game voice channel will also be open for anyone who wants to voice chat while playing.
What's Happening NowNews from Wintreath
Wintermoot Begins Wintreath History ProjectThe Wintreath History Project aims to put together an authoritative text on the entire history of Wintreath. So far he’s divided the history into ages defined by events that impacted the direction of Wintreath, then started working on the history of the Gilded Age (June-November 2019), which was selected by random generator. This will be a work on progress for some time, but check it out and feel free to give your thoughts!
Wintermoot Wins Wintreath's Finest!Wintermoot edged out
Dawsinian to win January’s Wintreath’s Finest by a single vote. On a personal note, thanks to everyone who voted for me and for everyone who believes in me. It means a lot. Also thanks to Dawsinian, one of the few people around who was with me in Wintreath on Day 1 and has been such a great person in the community over the years.
Dark Age Banners wins Avatar of the MonthEveryone is encouraged to adapt this month’s theme for their NationStates flags, forum avatars, and Discord profile pictures! This marks the second time in a row that the nomination by Waggleton (
Dashiki City) has won, a rare distinction given the number of nominations the contest receives every month.
Our community is taking the
8values political quiz, which compares where you stand politically along four axises. The idea is to compile everyone’s results and see how the community as a whole has shifted since the community took the quiz in 2017 and 2019. If you’d like to take the quiz, you can post your results on the topic or in the #content-warning-general Discord channel!
Werewolf XXV has concluded with neither town or wolves winning. The winner turns out to be NoName, a third party arsonist who won by setting everyone and everything by fire. Fire, fire everywhere! Congratulations to them! Werewolf XXV was also the most active Werewolf game with 1,947 posts in the topic as of this writing.
Thanks to Our SupportersAs always every month, I want to close out this section to thank our January supporters: trader, Gerrick, HannahB, Crushita (
Newvanda),
Dawsinian, and Gantar180. It blows me away that people care enough to support me and what I do in Wintreath, and I always deeply appreciate it!
Read More About It!Publications from Wintreans about anything and everything
Wintreath in Statistics - January EditionHow did we do and where was the activity in Wintreath last month? Check out Wintreath in Statistics to find out and read Wintermoot’s thoughts about it all!
New Forum Discussions
Here are the new discussions on our off-site forums! If one of them interests you, why don’t you add to it with a reply?
Looking for Group
The Hearthkeepers: Wintreath’s Welcome WagonThe Hearthkeepers help keep Wintreath a warm, inviting, and welcoming community! They do this by welcoming and helping new members, posting daily questions for the community to discuss, creating weekly events, and more! Would you like to help keep Wintreath a warm place? Check out the link and contact Michi / Penguin Dictators to join!
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